Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Devil in the White City tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Erik Larsons book. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City' one of the wonders of the world. 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect.

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